[ANSWERED] Super Titles
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@jarporte said:
The next thing I know the boss will throw at me is "Can the text fade in and out, like power point?"
Resist this!! Persuade the boss it's not a good idea! As an opera goer I notice that what pulls my eye from stage to surtitle is the sudden change of text, sensed in my peripheral vision. If the titles fade in and out one might not see this.
To the best of my memory neither the Royal Opera House or the English National Opera have fades between titles. And if those guys don't know how to do it properly, then who does?! -
@mark_m said:
@jarporte said:To the best of my memory neither the Royal Opera House or the English National Opera have fades between titles. And if those guys don't know how to do it properly, then who does?!
While I may agree with you. Neither of those companies pay my salary ;).
So if it is possible I do what the boss wishes.
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@jarporte
You want to look at 'Envelope Generators' connected to the Opacity (either in the Text Draw, or better yet, the Projector).
Might be easiest to have 2 Envelope generators, One ramps the Opacity down, say 100->0... then triggers the text/title switch, and the ramp up, say 0->100. -
@dusx That worked perfectly. Thanks
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@fifou I know this is "quite old" but can you tell me is there something in glypheo that I need to set for it to receive OSC from Isadora? I'm very far from being a pro, so I might well have it set up wrong in Isadora too. I've only used OSC to go from machine to machine, never from Isadora to another app on the same machine. I'm needing to project surtitles, in Arabic no less, and Glypheo seems to be able to handle the script...but I can't get it to listen to Isadora. Any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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Have you tried this? If Glypheo is running on the same machine as isadora does, put the IP in the OSC actor to 127.0.0.1 and the port to 9009
You can also control Glypheo via OSC, for example with TouchOSC on your mobile phone.
Be sure to setup your OSC port to 9009, and use the following messages :
/goPrevious/goNext/goTo indexwhere index is the OSC argument for example/goTo1or/goTo2.3/goBlackAndNext
Best
Dill
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Just in case other folks run across this post in future and are looking to work with surtitles/subtitles/supertitles without glypheo, it's worth noting that we've released the SRT Subtitle Player downloadable plugin on the TroikaTronix Add-Ons Page for use with .srt files.
Additionally, the Read Text From File downloadable plugin we have recently released on the TroikaTronix Add-Ons Page might also be useful for the purposes of reading surtitles/subitles/supertitles from a file and feeding that text into a Text Draw actor, then out through a Projector actor.
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@dillthekraut Thanks for this! Sorry -- I turned my attention to another project. The part I can't figure out is what OSC address to use.
What I have right now is:
localhost = udp address
9009 = port
??? = address [as I understand it, this should begin with / and should be supplied by glypheo...but I can find nothing in their very limited documentation]
Am I being dense?
Thanks so much for your help.
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The address is meant for the OSC path, which you now have put to the value. The /goNext command doesn't need any extra value. But to send something, Isadoras OSC transmit actor need to register a change at the value input. It doesn't matter in this case, what the value is. It could even be a trigger.
The OSC Multi Transmit does have a 'transmit trigger'. Which makes it a bit more logical.
If you would like to jump to a specific line, you would enter /goTo for the address and the Number of the line into 'value'. (see # 7 for Value 1 in pic)
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@dillthekraut Well, as embarrassed as I am at how simple that was, I'm glad I asked. Thanks so much for taking the time. Works perfectly. I really appreciate it.
